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“Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.”

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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern…

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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was…

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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

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Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage…

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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

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Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next…

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Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old…

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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and…

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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that…

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The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.

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